Stephen Foster: With My Banjo on My Knee

Contents

• Stephen Foster & The Banjo: A Musical Transformation
• The American Songwriter
• Dreaming Of Minstrels
• The Story And Spirit Of The Antebellum Banjo
• I Like Dat Good Old Song
• A Song Like No Other
• The Second-Prize Winner
• Two Cents A Copy
• The Celebratory Slave
• A Dulcem Melody
• The Enchantment Of Doo-Dah
• The Sold Away Slave
• Death Up North
• The Master Storyteller
• The Beginning Of Melancholy
• A Catching, Melodic Itch
• An Enduring Stereotype
• The Intolerable Burden
• The Yearning Of A Freedom
• The Last Minstrel Song
• Complete Lyrics
• Works Cited